Posted on 06/21/2011 7:19:13 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Cigarette makers must add large, graphic warning labels depicting diseased lungs, a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck and other images to packaging and advertising in the U.S. by October 2012, government officials said Tuesday.
The nine graphic images—accompanying warning labels with messages such as "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer"—are the biggest change to warning labels in more than 25 years. Such warnings were required by a 2009 law that gave the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products.
The supersize labels are the highest-profile part of an intensified war on tobacco by the federal government, which ranks it as the leading cause of preventable and premature death in the U.S., linked to an estimated 443,000 deaths a year. The adult smoking rate of 20.6% in 2009 has remained largely unchanged since 2004, and about 20% of high school students also smoke.
The new color labels must occupy the top half of the front and back of a cigarette pack, and 20% of an ad's space. Other images include a baby near a cloud of smoke, a dead body, and a man wearing a black t-shirt with "I Quit" written across the chest. All labels include the number of a national quit line. Current warning labels, which were put on cigarette packs in the 1980s, are contained in a small box with black and white text warning about the dangers of smoking.
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I think we should come up with something similar for claims made by global warming alarmists.
Pictures of starving children, frozen bodies etc.
bummer on the suffering Eric. I hope you will be OK.
Counting down the days until kids think this is cool- morbid and goth- and they start collecting them.
Smokers will ignore this just like they ignore the current warning labels.
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Smoking is deadly, yes, but I am flabberghasted at the ghoulish nature of these warnings.
In keeping with this theme, I think the United States Postal Service should issue stamps that show Uncle Sam with his boot on our neck, hands around our throat and shaking us down for loose change. Oh, and maybe some TSA employees with their hands down our pants.
After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, and if it’s good enough for the tobacco industry, it should be good enough for the government.
Hey fellow FReepers, vote for the best Big Tobacco spokesperson of all time. Text your vote to 800-GOOF-BALL.
The best spokesperson for Big Tobacco to get kids to smoke is:
A. The Marlboro Man
B. The Virginia Slims ad campaign
C. Joe Camel
D. Drango
Hey kids, if you want to be just like me DON'T SMOKE.
And the ghoulish pictures will become a standing joke amongst smokers ... most smokers seldom look at the pack, they just open it, force out a cigarette and light up. Waste of money and regulations in MHO.
I want pictures of mass genocide grave scenes next to the Dem (marxist) candidates for every election. Next to Rep candidates should be pictures of prosperity.
And the ghoulish pictures will become a standing joke amongst smokers ... most smokers seldom look at the pack, they just open it, force out a cigarette and light up. Waste of money and regulations IMHO.
I don’t suppose we’ll ever see such warnings on condom packages....
and yet still they won't let them make/market DEATH cigarettes...
I guess it would be too much to ask to have “chase” packs with pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden on them. I thought so.
Should put the same warnings on a Ballot!Those Commie punks.
Death panels, Obama”Care”, Agenda 21.....
Hell.....I thought they WANTED us to die......
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